Re: folder sort not retained
Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 8/08/2018 1:05 AM: Daniel wrote: Bob Fleischer wrote on 7/08/2018 3:34 AM: Using SM 2.49.4 on Windows 10: My Inbox folder sort reverts to sort by Subject every time I open display of the folder, even if I had chosen previously a sort by date or sort by order received. This does not happen with other folders. If I change their sort-by column, go away and come back, the chosen sort remains. Bob, how have you actually got things set up?? (View->Sort by) It sounds to me like you have it set to View->Sort by->Subject when you actually want it set to View->Sort by->Date. Selecting a particular column to sort by only applies for the current instance, as far as I know, because you have told it, in Preferences or wherever, to start up another way. If you experiment with this, you'll find that clicking a column heading correspondingly changes the View | Sort by... setting. In my experience with SM, setting a sort order for any one mail/news folder imposes the same sort order on all mail/news folders, and the setting sticks until I change it. If SM 2.49.4 has changed that, I'd like to know. Paul, I'll bow to your greater knowledge! I was just calling it as I remembered it! ;-) -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: folder sort not retained
Daniel wrote: Bob Fleischer wrote on 7/08/2018 3:34 AM: Using SM 2.49.4 on Windows 10: My Inbox folder sort reverts to sort by Subject every time I open display of the folder, even if I had chosen previously a sort by date or sort by order received. This does not happen with other folders. If I change their sort-by column, go away and come back, the chosen sort remains. Bob, how have you actually got things set up?? (View->Sort by) It sounds to me like you have it set to View->Sort by->Subject when you actually want it set to View->Sort by->Date. Selecting a particular column to sort by only applies for the current instance, as far as I know, because you have told it, in Preferences or wherever, to start up another way. If you experiment with this, you'll find that clicking a column heading correspondingly changes the View | Sort by... setting. In my experience with SM, setting a sort order for any one mail/news folder imposes the same sort order on all mail/news folders, and the setting sticks until I change it. If SM 2.49.4 has changed that, I'd like to know. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: folder sort not retained
Bob Fleischer wrote on 7/08/2018 3:34 AM: Using SM 2.49.4 on Windows 10: My Inbox folder sort reverts to sort by Subject every time I open display of the folder, even if I had chosen previously a sort by date or sort by order received. This does not happen with other folders. If I change their sort-by column, go away and come back, the chosen sort remains. Bob, how have you actually got things set up?? (View->Sort by) It sounds to me like you have it set to View->Sort by->Subject when you actually want it set to View->Sort by->Date. Selecting a particular column to sort by only applies for the current instance, as far as I know, because you have told it, in Preferences or wherever, to start up another way. -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
folder sort not retained
Using SM 2.49.4 on Windows 10: My Inbox folder sort reverts to sort by Subject every time I open display of the folder, even if I had chosen previously a sort by date or sort by order received. This does not happen with other folders. If I change their sort-by column, go away and come back, the chosen sort remains. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
